skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Including my ISP? No. My ISP doesn't even want to keep historic records of what customers had what IP. Storing all that requires resources that they would rather mark as profit. You see, my ISP isn't in the content producing business, so it doesn't interest them that much what I do with my fiber.
never knew the MPAA executives were on HackerNews.
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Better tag line: Bitcoin is the world's most ingenious botnet monetization scheme.
I don't think the state of enterprise JVM support on ARM is a reason run x86 JVM under software emulation on ARM.

Intel would eat that idea for breakfast.

There are real JVMs on ARM, plus Jazelle Java acceleration.
So this is a purely software solution? I wonder if we could see ARM SoCs with some hardware for decoding x86 instructions and have them executed by the ARM core.

After all since ARM7 most ARM cores support both ARM and THUMB instruction sets.

I'm not sure you could do that without permission from Intel though.
Although let's not forget that investing in a public company doesn't necessarily mean you think the company will do well, just that you'll be able to sell your shares for more than they cost.

The people who predicted this effect and got in early may, in fact, be acting completely rationally.
There's lots of room for "innovation" in the legal arena. Something like the digital equivalent of an automated speed camera? Adjustment on your taxes based on how many times your IP address shows up on public trackers? Rejected security clearances?
I have toyed with the idea of a chording keyboard. Either as an App or as a cover for an iPhone/Android.

(Probably a thousand other people have had this idea, too. So the chording addition probably has been tried -- and don't work well.)

I'd love a smaller iPhone.

On the subject of a mini iPad without a retina display -- why do people care? The mini is probably a boring product to fill a market niche and make it harder for the competition. The (third/)new iPad's good display is so readable that even I can read books. A 7" screen will have problems showing a full size pdf, even if it was retina. There are other use cases like gaming, but... Meh.
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My advice would be not to look at it as a "sale". Even framing it that way can scare people off and give people the wrong mindset, I think framing it as a value proposition shown within a conversation is the best way to look at it.

Imagine talking to a friend or someone you know and finding a real need they have and simply recommending it because you strongly believe it would help them.

Forget "always be closing" just listen to people and see if you have a valid proposition for them. The most successful salesmen I've seen have had way more knowledge on the topic then their customers and have provided them with what was really necessary for them reducing wasted time they could have spent searching, while also explaining why it was logical.

Lastly, I think you should have good body language not to make people think you're a serial killer and after a few practice sessions you should be fine. You earn courage by doing the task itself, either in little chunks e.g. doing a bit more and more each stage at a time, or doing the whole task at once without breaks.

Best book I've read on sales is: Spin Selling by Neil Rackham
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You can try Clickdesk (http://www.clickdesk.com) too. Over 30k use them everyday.

Disclaimer: I was involved in their team and have lot of association with them. I can vouch for their scalability on AppEngine..
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Anything with a JIT compiler? For example, the status of Java on ARM is getting better, but still rumoured to not be as fast as on x86.

And anything that is not open source? Proprietary software is still used heavily on servers running an open source stack. Having a performant emulation or translation option could help with odd pieces that vendors haven't recompiled. Although support would be an issue for this at enterprise level.
Thomas Harriot: A telescopic astronomer before Galileo (2009)
1997 called and &c &c. Microsoft could give a shit about damaging "open source".
To all the language bashers, can we all agree that a good developer beats a bad developer in any language?

I wrote a post on this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4606961
They are both pretty enjoyable languages. Every now and then I find myself missing one Python feature when I develop in Ruby (and vice-versa), but overall I would recommend both of them equally to someone who wants to get started in web development.
You are referring to people being slavish and excessively subservient to authority figures? I wasn't looking at it that way. I was merely thinking she would like to work somewhere else again. The way she publicly played this makes her look unprofessional. If you have a feeling you're being fucked over, make a case, collect the evidence and by all means, break the news. But don't go all emotional and start posting on Quora and then keep quit about the whole case. The way she handled this does not make her case stronger, only weaker.
bad title:

- monitoring implies that they are doing it constantly, but they are only allowed to do it for evidence on suspicion

- providers of telecommunication stuff (telephone, email, etc.) have to provide possibilites for the government to get IP addresses, places, logins and more
Does it address config drift in production where users make changes that aren't reflected in the versioned codebase? The question is not intended as a retort, I'm interested in the answer.

The prejudices I have against Drupal are the result of my experience of it starting as far back as version 4. I don't believe they are unfounded.
I'm curious if this last sentence from the article is true:

> It turns out that a currency can thrive even when
> no one is making laws for it.

Were the laws were so weak or hard to enforce at one time that, effectively, there were no laws? Can we look at currencies from that period of time to give us a sense of how bitcoin will work?

(Another poster pointed out that the spec is making the rules, and not a government, so it may be wrong to compare bitcoin with an un/poorly regulated currency.)
Actually, it seems that there's no an actual snitch because your contacts can see what you've endorsed about them...
I think if asked people will say "I don't really need to know when my appliances are on or off"...however, they would be interested in spending maybe a few extra bucks a month to know if they are losing tons of money on appliances and if they can somehow reduce those costs with perhaps recommendations, especially if maybe you show them how much money you can save them first and then charge for recommendations and a monthly rate for future tracking ;)
I laughed out loud when I read your comment. Very good!
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Things like automatic exploit generation[1] and exploit hardening[2] in particular rely on SMT solvers to accomplish their goals. They allow for some truly remarkable things to be done. Expect skynet to utilize them heavily in its distributed automatic exploit generation (global autopwn) tooling!

1. http://security.ece.cmu.edu/aeg/
2. http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~ejschwar/bib/schwartz_2011_rop-abs...
I can't read this article. It has two pages and the title on the first page said there should be only one page for all pages on the web.
The platform is to not choose one.
How to work with images in HTML
I don't think we'll ever know whether she's right or wrong. She could quite possibly be in the wrong, but I increasingly doubt it the more I read.

Here's why: her firm acted like a massive dick.

First, making employees sign a non-disparagement, arbitration-only agreement (except as a term in a severance negotiation) is vile and should be illegal. You're effectively threatening to fire someone (or rescind an offer) if he or she doesn't give up a basic right.

All of these "Here's what rights you would have if we fired you, but you have to give them up to work for us" terms (non-disparagement, non-litigation or arbitration-only, non-solicitation of employees) are unethical and only exist because most people can't afford to be without an income. They are contracts under duress and should be categorically stricken.

Second, rather than arguing that the discrimination claims are untrue by bashing the employee's performance, the appropriate thing to do would have been to establish with actual data (not performance reviews, which can be fudged) that she wasn't experienced enough for the promotion, and that she would have been the least qualified person at that level if she had been promoted. The proper way to handle a bogus harassment claim (if it is that, and I doubt it given the way the firm has behaved) is to show the person's trajectory of promotions, and then show the average for a person of that experience, and to use hard data. "The average partner makes senior partner after 7 years. She was only here for 4." Or: "To make senior partner, we generally expect that a person bring in $20 million in business. She brought in $12 million." That's what you do if you're decent.

Also, the truth is that a company in that position will almost never need to air performance reviews. Unless this was a "lock-step" or expected promotion where it's professionally damaging not to get it, the onus is (or at least should be) on her to prove, using hard data, that she did deserve to get the promotion. If they were decent, they'd sit back and wait for her to make a case that she did deserve the promotion, and then argue against that.

Third, they are asking to have her pay their legal fees. They are a venture capital firm. When you're that rich, trying to scrounge money off of people who are quite possibly not rich is pretty debased: an inverse Robin Hood sort of thing.

Fourth, using performance reviews for anything other than direct feedback is immoral and, itself, constitutes legalized (but ethically illegitimate) harassment. If performance reviews are confidential between manager and employee, then that's how things should be. They should be direct feedback for mutual benefit, and nothing more. If they're aired to the public, that's wrong. That's effectively extortion.
return result;
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That happy ending is not Hemingwayesque.
Infinite scroll pages are harder to read with a pointing device withouth a scroll wheel, because the scroll bar jumps randomly when reaching the bottom.
Don't be a slave to the slider
Cortex A15 and beyond will support hardware virtualization.
Has anyone tried this with Phonegap? That would solve the plugins availability issue.
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It was automatically blocked by my work filter as porn. First time I've even noticed a .xxx extension, and I didn't notice it until I noticed it was blocked.
Well, ex post facto laws are generally frowned upon so it is not as risky as you make it sound. And in Europe there is also EU privacy laws you need to take into account. It is unlikely a new kind of law will suddenly appear without warning.
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Top post HN (check), interesting title (check), innocuous title (check) -- click -- "Blocked by Security Policy" (huh?)-- .xxx domain? wtf! damnit! now i have an xxx domain logged to my corporate login... EXCELLENT. thanks.

Really though... Is there some sort of clever reason why this person's blog is on a xxx domain aside from annoying people like myself stuck behind corporate proxies?
Perhaps have a tagline written at the top telling people what your site does also you may want to show the site in action vs. advertisements of it in the banner. Overall I like it.
More than that in most cases:

http://www.ppa.co.uk/about/activities/environment/ppa-enviro...
In Washington DC, they give the owner the option of specifying who the driver was, and they forward the ticket.
The de-facto standard has become "if it doesn't have a country code TLD" it is in the US" (e.g. .net, .com etc). I think the majority of users understand this, but it's not the way it should be. This is typical American insularity.

.edu should be a second level domain under country code TLDs. Here in Australia we use .edu.au. (e.g.: csu.edu.au, sydney.edu.au, unsw.edu.au etc). I don't think the TLD of .edu should be allowed unless you are an international education institution that is not tied physically to a single geographic location (e.g. Semester at Sea). Education institutions like to use short acronyms as their domain name and we would quickly experience a shortage of domain names if they all used the .edu TLD.
"retail investors piling ~$100b of other people's money"

Retail investors invest their own money, which, typically, isn't too substantial per investor. "Retail investor" is really just a finance-industry euphemism for mom 'n pop with a Charles Schwab account.

This is opposed to "institutional investors," which are big pension funds, trusts, and other mega-monied organizations. Or to "HNWIs (high net-worth individuals)," which is precisely what it sounds like: folks with millions of dollars of liquid capital, usually managed by private wealth management arms of investment banks or hedge funds. Both institutionals and HNWIs are perceived to be savvier than retail investors, both by the law and by the industry.

I'd actually be a lot more frightened if the latter two categories of investors were piling money into this company, solely on the basis of Psy's song.
All this tells me is that it hasn't hit governmental radar in any meaningful way, yet.

If Bitcoin was annoying enough to be a real problem to the powers that be, the computing resources necessary to hijack the main chain would be online in a very short period of time.
I left Drupal for WordPress because:

1. When it breaks, it shatters—as you said
2. WordPress's UI is so much better for clients, in my experience
3. Theming in Drupal was a nightmare — div.class > div.class > div.class

It's such a shame about Drupal. It's so capable, flexible and powerful, but the ui is a tough sell. You can build almost anything with it, but when it comes time to theme and eventually time to hand it off to the client, that's where things got hairy for me.
I'm sure it offers direct access to NSA now that's owned by a US company, though. Also, to the police:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/skype-makes-c...
Well not quite. While SVMs gained a lot of popularity for having nice properties e.g.

1) a convex problem which means a unique solution and a lot of already existing technology can be used

2) the "kernel trick" which enables us to learn in complicated spaces without computing the transformations

3) can be trained online, which makes them great for huge datasets (here the point 2) might not apply - but there exist ways - if someone's interested I can point out some papers)

There is an ongoing craze about deep belief networks developed by Hinton et al. (who is teaching this course) who came up with an algorithm that can train them reasonably well (there exist local optima and such, so it's far from ideal). Some of the reasons they're popular

1) they seem to be winning algorithm for many competitions / datasets, ranging from classification in computer vision to speech recognition and if I'm not mistaken even parsing. They are for example used in the newer Androids.

2) DBNs can be used in an unsupervised mode to _automatically_ learn different representations (features) of the data, which can be then used in subsequent stages of the classification pipeline. This makes them very interesting because while labelled data might be hard to get by, we have a lot of unlabelled datasets thanks to the Internet. As what they can do - see the work by Andrew Ng when they automatically learned a cat detector.

3) DBS are "similar" to biological neural networks, so one might think they have the necessary richness for many interesting AI applications.
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- FreeAgent for my company accounts
- CrashPlan for my online backups
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"Why use ruby when you could have developed Basecamp in less time with php?"
The 1024 x 768 in a 7" is fine, and one of the big use cases is people with small hands aka children.
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I am immediately suspicious of a .xxx link. Any professional writer should avoid this TLD.
My dad used to work at a magazine distributor, and I'd not be surprised at all by that number.

Lead times to print magazines tend to be long. They could print them quickly, but the cost would be substantially higher. So it can be anything from days (expensive) for topical magazines that don't carry news, to weeks or months (for things like comics, that are often printed in low cost countries). It is/was generally far cheaper to use cheap print options like that, and over-order substantially over expected retailer requests in case of extra demand, than to be prepared to do multiple print runs.

Each retailer would request more copies than they expected to sell, given that they'd take the copies on consignment, and nobody wanted them to run out of copies - more distribution runs was far more expensive than sending them more copies initially. Given that sales for each retailers could fluctuate substantially from one week to the next, that meant a large number of unsold copies.

So there's two large buffers that by design lead to unsold inventory. Usually the only thing that varies is that the size of the unsold inventory varies from issue to issue depending on well they're at forecasting demand.

Most retailers would only get a distribution run once a week (this distributor didn't handle newspapers) unless a particular issue of some magazine proved successful way beyond the norm.

As a kid I used to love that he had that job - we used to get a huge pack of free comics and other magazines every Friday due to fluctuating orders from retailers - staff got to freely pick from anything that was too old for them to take further orders.
It's not good. A few things that happen when you have a surplus of men: additional wars (when male labor is plentiful it's easier to go to war), decrease in women's rights (women become commodities), and increased demand on social safety nets (elderly men who never marry are more dependent on the state).
Gold? (even today)
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That is indeed that way they use to talk. Not anymore: http://dottech.org/28447/isps-in-the-usa-to-start-monitoring... or http://hearusnow.org/posts/180-is_your_isp_tracking_your_web... or http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/major-isps-turn-into-copyri...

Jut saying: If torrents are your thing, you might want to invest in some VPN... http://torrentfreak.com/torrentprivacy-fast-and-anonymous-bi...
(Now would MPAA executives link to that?)
I've used bitcoinary with success to get bitcoins for Paypal USD (with some paying attention to who is selling them: browsing their history + feedback)

http://blockchain.info/ is a great wallet, I use it on my iPhone and Chrome
Some highlights:

- extreme gender imbalance in Qatar (probably due to migrant workers) : http://populationpyramid.net/Qatar/2010/

- Very clearly aging population in Japan :
http://populationpyramid.net/Japan/2010/

- People dying quite young in Afghanistan:
http://populationpyramid.net/Afghanistan/2010/

- Clear impact of WW2 in Europe in 1950 on the 20-30 age class:
http://populationpyramid.net/EUROPE/1950/

The projections past 2010 are interesting too but they tend to smooth the curves which is probably not very realistic, as seen from the past. Nevertheless, it's interesting to see that the population of some countries has already started to shrink, like Russian Federation: http://populationpyramid.net/Russian+Federation/2010/
I installed a punch code deadbolt on our front door. It has been a life-changing experience. I need neither phone nor keys and never worry about being locked out. I just have to replace the batteries every couple years.

One of the biggest improvements, not offered by the Lockitron, is the lack of needing to fumble in your pockets for anything. If you've got a handful of groceries, it's much easier to shift a bag or two to get a hand free and punch the code than it is to go digging in your pockets.
Very well written article. Conclusion is very sharp, I like it. I tried to make the tl;dr version but it's definitely worth reading the full article http://api.tldr.io/tldrs/506c2f7991598c0f55000098.
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Very smart move on sending emails to people who clicked for summaries and didn't get them. (But in which they are later created.)
The article does not contain the word "hedge", and contains "fund" only in the phrase "moved funds from one part of the company to a subsidiary overseas". It does not contain the word "biggest", and contains "largest" only in contexts that have nothing to do with any sort of fund.

The article does not say anything even slightly like "The world's biggest hedge fund is managed by Apple Inc.", the current title here on HN. It is about how Apple allegedly avoids paying taxes.
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Quit please. With all the talent here, someone might begin a startup doing just that. (Or a fake one, ripping off the RIAA when they wish to invest).
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He explicitly did not disclose during juror interview about his being previously sued by Seagate, where Samsung was the majority shareholder, and which is likely what resulted in his bankruptcy filing. One might find a prejudice in such an event, especially if it was not disclosed.
I can tell you they will definitely try to prosecute you. I own rental property and I let one of my tenets use the shared temporary Internet access (yes some would say that was stupid) but to me Internet is like water so I felt it was alright.

The annoying thing is that its not the studio company that is suing you its the IT company that is scraping your IP address. They then according to my lawyer do a geo-location lookup and based on your location determine if your worthwhile suing.

If your in affluent area your a target because they are confident you will settle. They reason people settle is that its almost impossible to fight the case with out revealing your identity. And I will tell you do not want to do that because they then resell that information because most of these IT scraping companies are offshore.

I heard from one lawyer when its all said in done they have done the risk analysis (counter-suing, cases dropped, etc) and they on predict on average making about $50 or more a case.
But if there were no speed cameras, everyone would drive faster, use more fuel, and so pay more fuel tax!